The Right to Stay Home w/ David Bacon
On this episode, my guest is David Bacon, a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte (COLEF / UC Press, 2017) includes over 300 photographs and 12 oral histories of farm workers. Other books include The Right to Stay Home and Illegal People, which discuss alternatives to forced migration and the criminalization of migrants. Communities Without Borders includes over 100 photographs and 50 narraatives about transnational migrant communities and The Children of NAFTA is an account of worker resistance on the US/Mexico border in the wake of NAFTA.
Show Notes
David’s Early Years
Learning about Immigration through Unions
The Meaning of Being Undocumented
NAFTA and Mexican Migration
The Source of Corn / Maize
Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations / Frente Indigena de Organizacaions Binacionales
The Right to Stay Home
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) Campaign
The Face & History of Immigration in the USA
Immigration Reform and Amnesty
The Violence of Fortuna Silver Mines in Oaxaca
Solidarity, Change and Optimism
Homework
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
Communities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration
Transcript
The transcript is available via Chris's Substack page. You can sign up for free and read along here: https://chrischristou.substack.com/
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